From a rooftop in Florence's San Lorenzo quarter, where the terracotta sea of the city's medieval fabric stretches toward the Apennine foothills, Glance Hotel makes its most persuasive case. The pool deck, framed by glass balustrades and a louvered aluminium pergola, sits above a neighbourhood more accustomed to leather market stalls than design hotels — and that tension between the resolutely contemporary and the deeply historical is precisely what the property has been built around. Fitted into a mid-century building on Via Cavour 23, the hotel deploys a palette of pale oak flooring, white lacquer surfaces, and dove-grey curtain fabric that keeps every room calm and unencumbered. The interiors work a gentle dialogue between minimalism and Florentine cultural reference: large-format wallcoverings in some rooms reproduce fragments of Renaissance sculptural detail — acanthus scrollwork, marble drapery — rendered in monochrome and set behind flush LED cove lighting, so that the effect is closer to a photographic print than a period gesture. Eames DSW chairs appear at desk positions alongside upholstered platform beds in warm taupe. The wider suites open through oversized sliding partitions into separate sitting areas furnished with low sofas and purple velvet ottomans, the single note of saturated colour against an otherwise achromatic ground. It is a hotel that has decided restraint is the most honest response to a city that already has more ornament than any interior could compete with.

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Il Glance Hotel In Florence è situato nello storico quartiere di San Lorenzo sede dell’omonimo “Mercato Centrale”. Nelle immediate vicinanze si trovano i prestigiosi Musei dell’Accademia e degli Uffizi. Il Duomo e il Ponte Vecchio sono facilmente raggiungibili a piedi. A due passi dal Palazzo degli Affari, la Fortezza Da Basso e dalla Stazione Centrale Santa Maria Novella, il Glance Hotel è la location ideale sia per viaggi di lavoro che per scoprire i tesori della culla del rinascimento. L’edificio, opera del celebre architetto fiorentino Italo Gamberini, risalente ai primi anni 50 e completamente ristrutturato, dispone di 68 camere arredate in stile contemporaneo e dotate di ogni comfort, wi fi gratuito presente in tutta la struttura, una sala meeting, un Lounge Bar che si affaccia su un ampio Patio esterno. Al sesto piano si trova la grande terrazza panoramica aperta tutto l’anno con una vista unica a 360 gradi sui tetti di Firenze. Sulla nostra Terrazza troverete una splendida Piscina riscaldata dal design moderno ed esclusivo. L’hotel dispone inoltre di un garage privato.